'Twas Lucan's Farsalia 
--De Finibus, rather. 
No, 'twas his Thebeid 
Or was't the Aeneid? 
(If so, it's Book Six; 
(I'm on to his tricks.) 
the similes sequence is 
Not ritualistic. 
It's nominalistic. 
"Two truths," did he say? 
Ole! 

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